Universal Robots Unveils Enhanced UR10e with 25 Percent Greater Payload

“Universal Robots is committed to continuous improvement based on meaningful conversations with customers and our ability to address critical market opportunities,” says Kim Povlsen, president of Universal Robots. “Our customers have already deployed UR cobots on a wide variety of palletizing applications. Over time, they have identified opportunities to utilize our UR10e cobot in handling tasks with heavier items. In response to this demand, we have enhanced the UR10e to support greater payloads, providing customers with exciting new deployment capabilities.”

The enhanced UR10e can be used in palletizing applications with cartons weighing up to 10 kg and a 2.5 kg gripper. Also, the robot is now more versatile for other material handling tasks too, such as loading and unloading heavier workpieces in machine tending deployments and packaging of heavy items.

The enhanced UR10e’s greater payload takes more weight from the hands and shoulders of humans, leading to improved ergonomics and working conditions. With overexertion and repetitive motion accounting for an estimated 24 percent and 8 percent of workplace injuries respectively in the U.S. alone, this provides significant relief to human workers.

Feedback from UR partners has been positive. MBO Postpress Solutions GmbH in Germany has integrated the UR10e as part of its CoBo-Stack stacking cobot.  “Increasing the payload of the UR10e will make our MBO CoBo-Stack much more profitable for our customers by expanding their application possibilities to include larger packages and heavier products, such as perfect-bound or saddle-stitched catalogues and brochures,” says Sebastian König, head of research and development at MBO Postpress Solutions.

In addition, the updated UR10e also provides plug-and-play compatibility with products from Universal Robots’s UR+ ecosystem of hardware and software peripherals, ensuring that users can quickly and easily get started with collaborative applications.